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»Does Democracy Matter?07/10/14 17:30 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Latest From the Wilson Center. Negative experiences from state-building projects in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mixed record of democratic change in the former Soviet Union and the aftermath of Arab Spring h...

»ISIS: The street gang on steroids07/10/14 11:01 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated. [File] This undated image shows ISIS fighters marching through Raqqa, Syria. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Young ISIS recruits are searching for same protection and respect as gang m...

»How ISIS makes its millions07/10/14 10:57 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from CNN.com Recently Published/Updated. STORY HIGHLIGHTS A Treasury official says ISIS makes around $1 million a day Oil smuggling isn't the only way it generates revenue Experts: ISIS is like organized crime,...

»Who is doing what to fight ISIS?07/10/14 10:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from CNN.com - Top Stories. Canada is expected to vote Monday on sending troops, fighter jets and other resources to join the fight against ISIS. The militant group has seized large swaths of land in its quest ...

»U.S. takes fight closer to ISIS07/10/14 10:55 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from CNN.com - Top Stories. U.S. Apache helicopters struck ISIS targets in Iraq's Anbar province over the weekend in an effort to push back ISIS forces advancing near Falluja, a senior U.S. defense official said.

»How to talk to terrorists07/10/14 08:06 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Terrorism can never be defeated by military means alone. But how do you go about negotiating with people who have blood on their hands? Britains chief broker of the Northern I...

»Why politicians need historians07/10/14 08:02 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. Few policymakers today seem interested in lessons from the past. Their short-termism will fail to tackle the new megatrends For much of the last 40 years, historians on both s...

»When critics become playwrights07/10/14 08:00 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Network Front | The Guardian. From George Bernard Shaw to Nicholas de Jongh, there is a tradition of reviewers penning their own scripts. So can you learn to write plays by watching them? And does being a ...

»The terrible truth about cannabis07/10/14 07:56 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from News | Mail Online. The paper by Professor Wayne Hall, a drugs advisor to the World Health Organisation, builds a compelling case against those who deny the devastation cannabis wreaks on the brain.

»Young gunned His genitals in Aguada06/10/14 11:10 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Metro - Últimas noticias. Police said at 2:00 a.m. Monday acerca an incident in Which an injured person was shot in the beach area near the Seven Seas in business Guaniquilla neighborhood of Aguada was Rec...

»Yuri Lyubimov obituary06/10/14 08:17 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Russia | The Guardian. One of Russia's great radical directors and founder of the Taganka theatre in Moscow, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship after visiting Britain in 1983 The great Russian theat...

»Islamic State Proves Resilient06/10/14 07:45 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from WSJ.com: World News. U.S.-led airstrikes designed to serve notice on Islamist extremists in Iraq and Syria have also delivered a sobering message to Washington and its allies: Breaking the militants’ grip ...

»Russia's economy - The Economist03/10/14 08:44 from Mike Nova's Shared Newslinksmikenova shared this story from Russia - Google News. The Economist Russia's economy The Economist SIGNS of Russia's economic problems appeared long before the annexation of Crimea or the war in the Donbas region in Ukraine. The country'...

Omar Mateen and 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting - The Dots, The Darkness, and The Mirrors, part 2

Quotes and Questions for Investigations

THE DARKNESS OF THE LOWLY TRUTHS

9/11 and Russia – connecting the dots - by Michael Novakhov

FBI on a couch: problems and solutions: FBI as a domestic intelligence service

The American KGB and the Comey's visions: can Hoover's COINTELPRO thugs be transformed into the modern counterintelligence officers? | M.N.: The American KGB wants to take over the US government. Oy, gevalt! Maybe, it is the time to order a ticket to Madagascar.. - Quotes and Comments

What is wrong with the FBI?

The Kiryas Joel affair: "Sexual abuse" or FBI abuse? | Michael Ameri's suicide as a protest against the FBI: What is wrong with the FBI: its strategy, tactics, techniques and methods if they lead to these unexpected and tragic results?

Kiryas Joel: "Sexual abuse" or FBI abuse?

Is there a general attempt to mislead and to manipulate the FBI using the issues of sexual abuse as a pretext, as a way to deal with the political and other opponents?

Investigate the "investigators"! Part 2: FBI as "a high church for the true mediocre"

Investigate the "investigators"! FBI as "a high church for the true mediocre"

"At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre." Norman Mailer | "Investigate the "investigators"! I would think that no less than 50% of the problems this country is facing is due to the FBI's inadequacy. This is a very important issue and the time has come to address it." - by Michael Novakhov